Sentences with phrase «dramatis personae»

The parties are usually small businesses and their customers, the same dramatis personae as in the small claims court and the employment tribunal, with much the same concerns about legal costs.

Let me be transparent in exposing my connections to the dramatis personae and my own biases about the case.

As with many stories, the story of legal writing does not have a clear beginning or end, nor does its character manifest itself in a single, clear dramatis personae.

As a middle - aged woman of color, to deviate even a little from this is to risk being mistaken for the litigant, the court reporter, the social worker or any other actor in the dramatis personae of American courts.

The Tale of a Discipline Kimberly Y.W. Holst * Discipline: A branch of knowledge, typically one studied in higher education.1 As with many stories, the story of legal writing does not have a clear beginning or end, nor does its character manifest itself in a single, clear dramatis personae.

As predicted by the research they maintained the overall narrative structure and simply changed the dramatis personae.

«Over the years a dramatis personae has crystallised out of the film - making activity itself -LSB-...] These personages now suggest a comic strip of life, a theatre of the brain, and the creation of a...

If you are familiar with older work then the dramatis personae of muscular bearded men and afro - headed, gender - ambiguous figures is still here amid odd, cactus - like growths.

Kobaslija's virtuosic paint handling — the true dramatis personae — united this body of work.

Of course there are exceptions, not least among the many collateral events such as Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa's monumental fine - mesh head appearing in the dusk of San Giorgio Maggiore like a disembodied soul; and a fine show of Peter Doig's latest paintings, full of jauntily piratical lions and strange new characters to add to his mythological dramatis personae, at the Palazzetto Tito.

The 10 paintings at the National Gallery are a superabundance of riches, and the space feels rather like the dramatis personae list at the heading of a Shakespeare play, while the Phillips Collection paintings behave more like the cast of something by Chekhov.

It's clear that Lowry had great fun writing the story, drawing its forthright, dot - eyed characters, compiling comical definitions, and, by means of her bibliography, connecting The Willoughbys» dramatis personae to their classic counterparts.

For each of the featured characters a biographical statement and photograph appears in the front matter as a sort of dramatis personae.

His is merely the most dramatic of tragic pasts and traumatic events that define the dramatis personae, which include the young versions of future X-Men leaders Jean Grey (Sophie Turner of Game of Thrones, bringing conviction to a role that largely calls upon her to look tortured and intense while projecting psychic powers) and Scott Summers, aka Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), the man with the laser eyes.

(Seal was an early pawn in the brewing Iran - Contra scandal, whose dramatis personae, including Oliver North, have minor parts here.)

And, as far as the instrumentality of the past goes, the film ends on a suitably ironic note: Eiko and Wada gather the entire dramatis personae of the Taisho - era storyline for a group photo.

The dramatis personae, meanwhile, were similar in their conduct: they contrived, or they were duped, or they failed to act.

What the reader will not find in this book is any attempt to portray the dramatis personae as living, three - dimensional humans, with their own hopes, ambitions and fears — people who would most probably bleed if pricked.

It's far too early yet even to draw up the full dramatis personae.

I recall the firsthand account I received from some of the dramatis personae in that unfortunate saga.

Such a varied collection of dramatis personae, though, would be incomplete without the presence of a Carl Reineresque straight man, which is where the Wings» reticent defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom fits in.

With reference to the dramatis personae of the critical incident, the question is: «Granted that the chaplain and Mrs. B. heard one another, did they, together, also hear the gospel?»

As Augustine made his «heart» a dramatis persona in his Confessions, so must we consider the soul's motions, say these thinkers, if we are truly to embody the faith.

The ancestor project (an exploration of family through dramatis persona) follows the farm immersion experience that offers a sensorial understanding of what it was like to live without electricity, to lug water, to clear the land for pasture, to nurture animals that, in turn, end up on the table to nurture the family.